Is there a dress code at mcps high schools?

[Anonymous]

they cant even get kids to wear their masks correctly..how are they going to police clothing.
I also wish there was a dress code and more rules on appropriate behavior. it just makes society run a bit smoother, but I get it. freedom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

I get your point, and I have been the target of sexist dress codes due to having an hourglass figure. It’s uncomfortable. However, I don’t think it’s sexist to expect people to maintain some standard of appearance in a professional setting. While the code needn’t be sexist, I don’t think the message that it’s okay to “let it all hang out” is helpful either.

There is no workplace that lets their employees show up any which way. Why should schools be different?

Because students are not professionals and not employees.

Also, MCPS does not allow students to show up "any which way." See the policy posted by a PP.

School is supposed to be a place for learning. It’s not a playground or a dance party. People should dress professionally.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

I get your point, and I have been the target of sexist dress codes due to having an hourglass figure. It’s uncomfortable. However, I don’t think it’s sexist to expect people to maintain some standard of appearance in a professional setting. While the code needn’t be sexist, I don’t think the message that it’s okay to “let it all hang out” is helpful either.

There is no workplace that lets their employees show up any which way. Why should schools be different?

Because students are not professionals and not employees.

Also, MCPS does not allow students to show up "any which way." See the policy posted by a PP.

School is supposed to be a place for learning. It’s not a playground or a dance party. People should dress professionally.

Correct. It's a school. Teachers are professionals, principals are professionals, students are not professionals.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think girls or boys should wear booty shorts, midriff baring shirts, strapless tube tops, camis, or saggy pants that show underwear. Nobody should see a bra or thong.

Rules are actually easy to enforce if you bother to enforce them.

How?

Send Sarah Cameron and her booty shorts and bare tummy to the office, call her parents and have them bring her a change of clothes or take her home. If it happens again: suspension.

Then perhaps her parents will actually parent her.

I can’t believe some of what I saw on back to school pictures and at drop off.

They can do the same for masks btw.

^^^
Private schools don’t tolerate nonsense because they set standards and enforce rules. Public schools can, too. They just aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think girls or boys should wear booty shorts, midriff baring shirts, strapless tube tops, camis, or saggy pants that show underwear. Nobody should see a bra or thong.

Rules are actually easy to enforce if you bother to enforce them.

How?

Send Sarah Cameron and her booty shorts and bare tummy to the office, call her parents and have them bring her a change of clothes or take her home. If it happens again: suspension.

Then perhaps her parents will actually parent her.

I can’t believe some of what I saw on back to school pictures and at drop off.

They can do the same for masks btw.

^^^
Private schools don’t tolerate nonsense because they set standards and enforce rules. Public schools can, too. They just aren’t.

However, your personal opinion is irrelevant when it comes to MCPS dress codes.

[Anonymous]

Maybe, but it makes sense, right?
My DD after school the other day;
Mom, some girl wore a shirt and everyone can see her nipples.
Everyone was staring at her. it was hilarious.

is this what parents and schools want?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

That's really funny. My DD remembers a girl on her bus that would get on with "appropriate" clothing and no make-up. By the time they got to school, the girl had whipped off her "appropriate" clothes to reveal what she really wanted to wear to school underneath the clothes she left her house in and had a full face of make-up. What exactly is a parent to do ? Try having a teenage girl first before you judge the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but it makes sense, right?
My DD after school the other day;
Mom, some girl wore a shirt and everyone can see her nipples.
Everyone was staring at her. it was hilarious.

is this what parents and schools want?

You worry about the shirts your children wear. Other people can worry about the shirts their children wear. Also, speaking of "where are the parents" - teach your child not to stare at people or laugh at other people's discomfiture, because that's rude and cruel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

I get your point, and I have been the target of sexist dress codes due to having an hourglass figure. It’s uncomfortable. However, I don’t think it’s sexist to expect people to maintain some standard of appearance in a professional setting. While the code needn’t be sexist, I don’t think the message that it’s okay to “let it all hang out” is helpful either.

There is no workplace that lets their employees show up any which way. Why should schools be different?

Because students are not professionals and not employees.

Also, MCPS does not allow students to show up "any which way." See the policy posted by a PP.

School is supposed to be a place for learning. It’s not a playground or a dance party. People should dress professionally.

Correct. It's a school. Teachers are professionals, principals are professionals, students are not professionals.

Students, you moron, are children. Minors, in the overwhelming majority of cases. And as such, they should be controlled by adult professionals.
But if you don't understand that, you have more problems than wearing a ratty sports bra in public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe, but it makes sense, right?
My DD after school the other day;
Mom, some girl wore a shirt and everyone can see her nipples.
Everyone was staring at her. it was hilarious.

is this what parents and schools want?

You worry about the shirts your children wear. Other people can worry about the shirts their children wear. Also, speaking of "where are the parents" - teach your child not to stare at people or laugh at other people's discomfiture, because that's rude and cruel.

And you teach your idiot to dress appropriately.
Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Uniforms seem to make sense. No need to spend $$ on bts clothing. Limited fights on keeping up with fashion etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently not.
My daughter said a girl in her class had on booty shorts with her thong pulled up high on her hips and a sports bra. Not just a mid-drift showing.

No one said a thing

I don’t say this often but

where are her parents?

Probably going about their business in the belief that what their daughter does is more important than what their daughter wears. Evidently your opinion is different.

That’s what some people use to deflect, but the reality is people judge you by how you look and what you wear even before you have a chance to demonstrate who you are. Plus, women with legit confidence and intellect don’t typically dress inappropriately.

For me, I think our schools have simply lost control. Kids need rules and structure as they develop. It should be easy to set standards and enforce rules, yet our schools seemingly have subpar standards.

If you want to be a person who judges women based on how much skin their clothes expose or don't expose, go right ahead, that's your choice.

No.. I do! And men too! People who haven't learned to dress appropriately for the situation are immature, at best.

[Anonymous]

Whether there is or isn't, it's not your job to enforce it, OP.

[Anonymous]

I would prefer that my kid in second period math wasn't sitting in the chair where your child's exposed butt cheeks were in first period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think girls or boys should wear booty shorts, midriff baring shirts, strapless tube tops, camis, or saggy pants that show underwear. Nobody should see a bra or thong.

Rules are actually easy to enforce if you bother to enforce them.

How?

Send Sarah Cameron and her booty shorts and bare tummy to the office, call her parents and have them bring her a change of clothes or take her home. If it happens again: suspension.

Then perhaps her parents will actually parent her.

I can’t believe some of what I saw on back to school pictures and at drop off.

They can do the same for masks btw.

^^^
Private schools don’t tolerate nonsense because they set standards and enforce rules. Public schools can, too. They just aren’t.

In the eighties I went to high school wearing vintage slips and men's boxer shorts. We weren't allowed to wear actual shorts. I wore men's shirts, usually unbuttoned, over the slips. You could see my bras under the slips. They were usually black. It was hard to find black bras, as I recall, but Calvin Klein had some.

The world did not end. The boys in my class did not flunk their class. In fact, two went to Yale.

One day I wore a pair of fifties shorts that came down to my knees under a sixties minidress that came down to my crotch. That was the day I was called into the principal's office and told I had to change because I couldn't wear shorts. I nodded, smiled, went behind the nurse's curtain and took the shorts off. Wore the minidress the rest of the day. I had to sit very carefully.

Our school had no air conditioning, I must add, and it was 90 degrees.

I didn't do this for attention, or for anyone's pleasure but my own. That and comfort.

Kids are developing their style. Let them. One of the most valuable lessons we should be teaching is that there's no shame in a body, especially a woman's body, as this seems to be a specific flashpoint for so many.